can you provide evidence to support your claim that Dashes governance is controlled by early adopters? It shouldn't be hard, the voting history of proposals is available in the client with "mnbudget getvotes" followed by the proposal hash.
Vertoe's post is evidence Dash governance is 100% centralized.
Evan's Duffplanation for not doing a fair relaunch or airdrop is that some whales/early investors (ie Otoh) objected.
Like I said, prove it. The voting information is available in the client and if you're so sure it should be trivial to find a voting pattern to support it.